The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is sharply criticising the Federal Aviation Administration for a sudden recent policy change regarding flight instruction in several categories of ...

Richard McSpadden, executive director of the Air Safety Institute (ASI) of US general aviation lobby group Aircraft Operators and Pilots’ Association (AOPA) has died in an aviation accident. “We are ...

AOPA’s Mike Ginter introduces the 2025 National Pause for General Aviation Safety at Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo on April 1. Credit: Molly McMillin LAKELAND, Florida—The Aircraft Owners and Pilots ...

Bruce Landsberg, president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Foundation and executive director of the AOPA Air Safety Institute, has announced plans to retire after 22 years. Landsberg, ...

General Aviation experienced an overall decline in accident rates in 2023, according to the 35 th Richard G. McSpadden report recently published by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s (AOPA) ...

Pilots aged 70 and older are as safe and proficient as younger ones, but their insurance companies are dropping and canceling their policies or raising their premiums, according to the Aircraft Owners ...

The AOPA Air Safety Institute’s recently released editions of the Joseph T. Nall Report note a continued decrease in overall accident rates for noncommercial and commercial fixed-wing operations, ...

Mandatory carbon monoxide (CO) detectors will do little to lower the general aviation accident rate, the AOPA Air Safety Foundation (ASF) maintains. Reacting to recommendations by the National ...

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has proposed merging the 60-year-old AOPA Air Safety Foundation with the more recently created AOPA Foundation in a move the association says will “eliminate ...

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Institute (ASI) finds little evidence of any difference in the safety records of general aviation aircraft with glass cockpits compared with those ...